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Proposed end of Phase 1 joint product



Main product - Synthesis document

Background
  • Concept and inspiration from the CSISA end of phase 2 report - http://bit.ly/1OTJ1Zt
  • Proposed content outline to follow the SI indicators already agreed on by PCT. This will be broadly:
      • Productivity,
      • Economic sustainability,
      • Human wellbeing,
      • Environmental sustainability and,
      • Social sustainability

  • 3 stories per SI indicator
  • Lots of illustrations and graphics, embedded multimedia
  • Additional stories (pages): profiles of each region/project (infographics mainly); cross-cuttiing on things like typologies, MEL, comms,
    ... anything else
  • Joint product, with inputs across all projects
  • Co-financed as needed.

In principle: each story is 1 page of text (300-500 words max) ; plus a facing page of pictures/illustrations etc


Milestones
  • Agree concept with PCT (Feb)
  • Simret & Jonathan to review stories published on the website to scout for possible success already reported for inclusion into the draft publication
  • dropbox outline version ready on 6th
  • Have final list of agreed stories - afternoon 10 June
  • story standard structure - PB, by 24 june
  • Have first drafts of the stories – by 1 July, 2016
  • Infographic concepts - by 8 july
  • first overall draft - mid July (week of 18) with a tiny small group meeting? (in Kenya)
  • Design, infographics, editing.reviews etc - Aug:
  • Publication of final digital output - end September 2016
  • Print output in October???

PHASE 2: Complementary product: Video


PROGRESS:

Selected stories per SI domain

EMPHASIS ON RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

TITLE?

Foreword

Introduction

About AR
  1. Infographics: SI framework explained
  2. Infographics: AR at a glance
  3. Infographics: Comms and reach
  4. Infographics: the baselines
  5. Infographics: the partners (network diagrams)
  6. Infographics: scaling and approaches

Economic sustainability (income, poverty)
  1. Africa RISING technologies offer Ghana farmers opportunity to earn three times more - https://africa-rising.net/2015/09/23/africa-rising-technologies-offer-ghana-farmers-opportunity-to-earn-three-times-more/
  2. Expanding beyond demonstration plots brings new cattle to the kraal in Zambia - https://africa-rising.net/2016/01/14/expanding-beyond-demonstration/
  3. [PETER TO FOLLOW UP for ethiopia - TOO PRELIMINARY]

Human well-being (education, health, nutrition)
  1. Women ‘nutrition leaders’ changing the fate of children (from the cooking pot) in Mali - https://africa-rising.net/2015/04/16/women-nutrition-leaders/
  2. JONATHAN - GHANA?
  3. ethiopia ag-nutrition linkages - brief [PETER] / may have something on kids going to school with money ? home gardens?


Environmental sustainability (soil composition, erosion, water use efficiency, land use)
  1. Barking up the right tree: Multipurpose trees help Tanzania smallholders build a resilient farming system - https://africa-rising.net/2015/08/12/barking-up-the-right-tree-tanzanias-small-holder-farmers-building-a-resilient-farming-system-by-planting-gliricidia-trees/
  2. Busting soil myths in Tanzania - https://slate.adobe.com/a/Bxvpy/
  3. SWC in Ethiopia / landscape approach. the CIAT annual report story - GRIST?

Social (farmer groups, social capital, gender equity)
  1. A new dawn in Zanzoni, Mali as natural resource management conventions are formalized - https://africa-rising.net/2015/06/29/a-new-dawn-in-zanzoni-mali-as-natural-resource-management-conventions-are-formalized/
  2. Quality cowpea seed production offers Zambian women farmers opportunities for quality lives - https://africa-rising.net/2016/01/11/quality-cowpea-seeds/
  3. ethiopia platforms and empowerment [peter]

Productivity (yield, total factor productivity)
  1. ‘A good farmer produces their own seeds’: Raising food yields in Mali - https://africa-rising.net/2015/04/13/a-good-farmer-mali/
  2. Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa's soils - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7416/full/489359a.html
  3. The two-wheel tractor saves time and energy; it ploughs twice as fast as my oxen: http://africa-rising.net/2015/06/06/tractors-bedilu/



Cross cutting stories: Participatory research
  1. farmer research groups ethiopia
  2. technology parks - ghana

Cross cutting stories:Capacity development
  1. Securing the Future: The Story of Chacha Nyangi and how Africa RISING is mentoring the next generation of scientists - https://africa-rising.net/2015/02/09/securing-the-future-the-story-of-chacha-nyangi-and-how-africa-rising-is-mentoring-the-next-generation-of-scientists/
  2. Ethiopia Platforms? capdev peter
  3. Babati platform - jonathan

Cross cutting stories: M&E
  1. PMMT - evidence brief

Cross cutting stories: Scaling
  1. nafaka tz
  2. ethiopia farmer to farmer / kebele to kebele
  3. mother and baby trials
  4. typologies for targeting and scaling - writeup by mirja?